I... stay in close contact with several friends to help discuss choices and remind myself they ARE choices and this is fiction.
If you need people to remind you that you're writing fanfiction, not receiving actual memories or tapping into some alternate dimension, your grasp on reality is already tenuous and slipping.
Constants and Watchers What I did then - When I was receiving messages from other dimensions or channeling spirits/characters, I often had extended blackouts or periods of memory loss. Rather than taking this as the massive fucking warning sign it was, I recruited friends to act as aids. One of them had to be with me at all times, practically 24/7/365 in case I “had a knock” and they were responsible for supervising the episode and then letting me know exactly what happened.
Why it was wrong - I basically turned completely untrained friends into the full time care team for a dangerously unstable hallucinating individual. “Others” could be violent, distraught, disoriented, and were almost completely unpredictable, sometimes putting my friends into dangerous, stressful, and just plain uncomfortable situations that they felt fully responsible for not only managing, but hiding from those who didn’t know “what I was” and reporting back to me when it ended minutes…or hours…or days later.
What I’m doing differently - Thank pharmaceuticals this doesn’t happen any more. If it did, however, I understand that it is under no circumstances something that is in any way right to put on laymen…especially if they think it’s real! Therefore I’ve made sure that my friends know if I start acting strangely or don’t seem to think I’m myself, they need to just keep me safe long enough to get ahold of my parents and/or call for professional help, NOT supervise it, guide it, or make friends with it.
So now, we have Andy's inner circle essentially supervising him to make sure he doesn't cross the line into psychosis while roleplaying. The fact that he even considers this a possibility, and still persists in this activity, is highly irresponsible to say the least. (FYI, I don't believe Andy's ever lost touch with reality the way he claims, nor do I believe he is a diagnosed Schizophrenic.) But let's entertain that possibility and say he is.
Are these people psychiatrists? Are they trained to identify the signs and symptoms of mental illness? I'm guessing not. So once again, you have lay people supervising Andy to make sure he doesn't get in trouble or descend into a full-blown psychotic episode.
All this while he's having "spooky experiences", doesn't "know how I know what I know", and his "brain has a very difficult time separating what it generates from what is experiences."
I mean sure, he says he must have read it somewhere, but if he truly accepted that, then he would know how he "knew" it. There'd be no reason to think there was anything spooky or eerie going on, particularly something as mundane as "remembering" the flavours of cheese, tomato and pepper. Anyone reading this right now can probably imagine those flavours or their combination.
But don't worry, CFC (the one who blamed Abbey for not realizing Andy was "mentally ill") is on the case:
Andy: "I'm also super relieved and grateful to have you specifically on my facebook... you better than anyone else would recognize the signs if I was sliding"
Someone remind me if CFC bought into the DAYD cult or not. Apparently she remembers JFK being president, which is "funny" because he died before she was born. It's not like we live in a culture saturated with documentaries, films, and all sorts of media about JFK's presidency anything. These people have very woo-ish ideas about the nature memory.
So, Andy has "watchers" again. Remember when he promised that would never happen again?
http://watchfulnonny.tumblr.com/post/141726632212/yesterday-andrew-responded-to-my-post-well-he
I... stay in close contact with several friends to help discuss choices and remind myself they ARE choices and this is fiction.
If you need people to remind you that you're writing fanfiction, not receiving actual memories or tapping into some alternate dimension, your grasp on reality is already tenuous and slipping.
Let's stroll down memory lane, shall we?
http://andythanfiction.tumblr.com/post/86490759067/do-you-really-have-a-cult-like-that-tumblr-post
Constants and Watchers
What I did then - When I was receiving messages from other dimensions or channeling spirits/characters, I often had extended blackouts or periods of memory loss. Rather than taking this as the massive fucking warning sign it was, I recruited friends to act as aids. One of them had to be with me at all times, practically 24/7/365 in case I “had a knock” and they were responsible for supervising the episode and then letting me know exactly what happened.
Why it was wrong - I basically turned completely untrained friends into the full time care team for a dangerously unstable hallucinating individual. “Others” could be violent, distraught, disoriented, and were almost completely unpredictable, sometimes putting my friends into dangerous, stressful, and just plain uncomfortable situations that they felt fully responsible for not only managing, but hiding from those who didn’t know “what I was” and reporting back to me when it ended minutes…or hours…or days later.
What I’m doing differently - Thank pharmaceuticals this doesn’t happen any more. If it did, however, I understand that it is under no circumstances something that is in any way right to put on laymen…especially if they think it’s real! Therefore I’ve made sure that my friends know if I start acting strangely or don’t seem to think I’m myself, they need to just keep me safe long enough to get ahold of my parents and/or call for professional help, NOT supervise it, guide it, or make friends with it.
So now, we have Andy's inner circle essentially supervising him to make sure he doesn't cross the line into psychosis while roleplaying. The fact that he even considers this a possibility, and still persists in this activity, is highly irresponsible to say the least. (FYI, I don't believe Andy's ever lost touch with reality the way he claims, nor do I believe he is a diagnosed Schizophrenic.) But let's entertain that possibility and say he is.
Are these people psychiatrists? Are they trained to identify the signs and symptoms of mental illness? I'm guessing not. So once again, you have lay people supervising Andy to make sure he doesn't get in trouble or descend into a full-blown psychotic episode.
All this while he's having "spooky experiences", doesn't "know how I know what I know", and his "brain has a very difficult time separating what it generates from what is experiences."
http://watchfulnonny.tumblr.com/post/141663737032/breadcrumbs-bucky-and-cosplay
I mean sure, he says he must have read it somewhere, but if he truly accepted that, then he would know how he "knew" it. There'd be no reason to think there was anything spooky or eerie going on, particularly something as mundane as "remembering" the flavours of cheese, tomato and pepper. Anyone reading this right now can probably imagine those flavours or their combination.
But don't worry, CFC (the one who blamed Abbey for not realizing Andy was "mentally ill") is on the case:
http://watchfulnonny.tumblr.com/post/141663737032/breadcrumbs-bucky-and-cosplay
Andy: "I'm also super relieved and grateful to have you specifically on my facebook... you better than anyone else would recognize the signs if I was sliding"
Someone remind me if CFC bought into the DAYD cult or not. Apparently she remembers JFK being president, which is "funny" because he died before she was born. It's not like we live in a culture saturated with documentaries, films, and all sorts of media about JFK's presidency anything. These people have very woo-ish ideas about the nature memory.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Woo